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...foil strip, the "foreign connection"--Canadian siblings Michael and David Merner and Zimbabwean Rhodes Scholar Stanlake Samkange--teamed upinan impressive recovery after last week's defeat at the hands of Princeton...
...horns on posters of Mugabe and Zimbabwe's President, the Reverend Canaan Banana. In addition, whites complain that groups of tourists have been roughed up by soldiers-in one instance, for stumbling into an area reserved for North Korean advisers, who were imported by Mugabe to train Zimbabwean security forces...
Mugabe has also come under attack for importing 106 North Korean military advisers to train a special 5,000-man Zimbabwean brigade to use North Korean-supplied tanks, light armored vehicles and small arms. Mugabe has threatened to order the brigade to crack down on government opponents. He has also talked of the possibility of holding a national referendum to approve the establishment of a one-party state. Fearing interference in Zimbabwe's affairs from abroad, particularly the Soviet Union, Mugabe moved on Oct. 17 to limit the number of foreigners in each embassy to 20, thus forcing...
...with the apartheid regime in September 1980, some five months after he assumed office, has strongly criticized South Africa for refusing to relinquish its hold on Namibia. In retaliation, South Africa has terminated its preferential trade agreement with Zimbabwe, withdrawn its loan of 24 locomotives and expelled thousands of Zimbabwean workers employed in South Africa. The loss of the locomotives was a particularly severe blow: Zimbabwe's transportation system, staggering under the weight of a bumper maize harvest, will be able to get only a fraction of the crops to ports in South Africa without the engines. Says...
Among them, ironically, was a battalion of the former Rhodesian African Rifles, a 3,000-man brigade commanded by white officers and once the scourge of Zimbabwean guerrilla fighters. By week's end the national army troops had regained control of Bulawayo. Up to 1,000 dissident ZIPRA troops disappeared into the bush. Many carried their machine guns and grenade launchers with them, auguring more strife...